To let the creative team make four issues and then just...cancel the entire project is unusual. Marvel basically had to pay them for all the work they did without getting anything out of it. And we have no idea why. Some websites have speculated that the mini-series was going in a different direction with Viv that Marvel didn’t want to go, but if so...why agree to even do the mini-series in the first place? Why not ask the creative team to change what they were going to do? Sigh. Oh well, at least we can still read Cain’s Man-Eaters comic from Image.

“I think our background always informs how we tell stories, it’s just a question of how conscious of that we are. And there are always both bridges and gulfs between ourselves as writers and the characters we’re writing. I’m not Black or Puerto Rican, I ‘m not a teenager, I didn’t go to a nice school like Miles does. But there are lots of points where we do connect powerfully, even points where his experiences connect with my kids’ experiences., and I absolutely draw on those connections.”

DC will also be putting on a twelve-issue Freedom Fighters mini-series by Robert Venditti and Eddy Barrows. It will take place on Earth-X, where the Nazis won World War II. Having the main characters fighting against a literal Nazi regime means that the comic can get political in ways others can’t and I hope that it does.

Advertisement

Back to Marvel, the first issue of Extermination (SPOILERS SPOILERS TURN BACK IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW SPOILERS)saw the death of Cable, so a new X-Force book will see the original team (plus Deathlok for some reason) assembling to get revenge on his killer (who is, ironically, Young Cable). The book will be written by Ed Brisson, with art by Dylan Burnett.